The book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page.

As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all action.

It is a sign of our times, conspicuous to the coarsest observer, that many intelligent and religious persons withdraw themselves from the common labors and competitions of the market and the caucus, and betake themselves to a certain solitary and critical way of living, from which no solid fruit has yet appeared to justify their separation.

I remember the thought which occurred to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America, was, Have you been victimized in being brought hither?--or, prior to that, answer me this, "Are you victimizable?

We live ruins amid ruins.

The first point of courtesy must always be truth.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.